NATION/WORLD Friday, October 19, 2018 East Oregonian Page 7A Federal prosecutors open investigation into clergy abuse in Pennsylvania AP Photo/Moises Castillo Honduran migrants leave Guatemala City at sunrise Thursday as they make their way north toward the U.S. Many of the more than 2,000 Hondurans in a migrant caravan, trying to wind its way to the United States, left sponta- neously with little more than the clothes on their backs and what they could quickly throw into backpacks. Pressure turns to Mexico as migrant caravan makes way toward border By SONIA PEREZ D., PETER ORSI AND MARK STEVENSON Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY — As some 3,000 Hondurans made their way through Guatemala, attention turned to Mexico, after U.S. Pres- ident Donald Trump threat- ened Thursday to close the U.S.-Mexico border if authorities there fail to stop them — a nearly unthink- able move that would dis- rupt hundreds of thousands of legal freight, vehicle and pedestrian crossings each day. With less than three weeks before the Nov. 6 midterm elections, Trump seized on the migrant cara- van to make border security a political issue and ener- gize his Republican base. “I must, in the stron- gest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught — and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTH- ERN BORDER!” Trump tweeted, adding that he blamed Democrats for what he called “weak laws!” The threat followed another one earlier this week to cut off aid to Cen- tral American countries if the migrants weren’t stopped. Trump made a sim- ilar vow over another large migrant caravan in April, but didn’t follow through and it largely petered out in Mexico. On Thursday, Mexico dispatched additional police to its southern border after the Casa del Migrante shel- ter on the Guatemalan side of the border reported that hundreds of Hondurans had already arrived there. Apparently pleased with that response, in the eve- ning Trump retweeted a BuzzFeed journalist’s tweet of a video clip showing the police deployment, adding his own comment: “Thank you Mexico, we look for- ward to working with you!” Mexican officials said the Hondurans would not be allowed to enter as a group and would either have to show a passport and visa — something few have — or apply individually for ref- ugee status, a process that can mean waiting for up to 90 days for approval. They also said migrants caught without papers would be deported. Marcelo Ebrard, who is set to become foreign rela- tions secretary when Pres- ident-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador takes office Dec. 1, said Trump’s tweets Good Shepherd Lutheran Church need to be understood in the context of the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. “The electoral process is very near, so he is mak- ing a political calculation,” Ebrard said in an interview with Radio Centro. Trump’s stance, he said, was “what he has always presented,” adding he saw “nothing surprising in it.” Current Foreign Rela- tions Secretary Luis Videg- aray was also sanguine and viewed things through the lens of U.S. politics. “Nobody likes them (Trump’s comments). There’s no reason to give them greater transcendence or importance,” Videga- ray said from the United Nations where he sought the world body’s help pro- cessing asylum requests from the migrants. “What is important to us is the migrants, respect for human rights, their due protec- tion, particularly the most vulnerable.” Still, the idea that Mex- ico could close its porous southern border — or that the United States would choke off the lucrative trade and other traffic between the two nations — strained the imagination. “There would be huge economic impacts for both the United States and Mex- ico ... but limited effect on illegal immigration,” said Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute. “The president certainly can slow down crossing at legal border crossings where about a million peo- ple cross each day. That would really hurt legal tran- sit between the two coun- tries and manufacturing and trade, which would affect American workers,” Selee said. “But it would have much less impact on illegal border crossings between ports of entry.” Stephanie Leutert, direc- tor of the Mexico Secu- rity Initiative at the Univer- sity of Texas at Austin, said she interpreted the tweet to mean Trump could send troops not to ports of entry but elsewhere where the illegal crossings take place. “If that’s the case, I don’t think Mexico should be too worried because in a sense ... it’s the same kind of thing U.S. administrations have been doing for a long time,” Leutert said. Like Guatemala and Honduras, Mexico is a country of many migrants, raising the question of whether the political will exists for a confrontation. 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Main • 541-276-9569 Pastor Jeff Geesey Pastor Sharon Miller the Diocese of Greensburg to be transparent.” There was no indication the Justice Department is planning a nationwide investigation. U.S. Attorney William McSwain of Philadelphia, who issued the subpoenas, wants to know if priests, bishops, seminarians or others committed any fed- eral crimes. McSwain, appointed by President Donald Trump earlier this year, asked for certain church leaders to testify before a federal grand jury in Philadelphia, though it could be months before that happens because of the time it takes to review the requested documents. P eace L utheran C hurch Faith Center Church 541-278-8082 www.livingwordcc.com In this Aug. 29, 2018, file photo, U.S. Attorney Wil- liam McSwain is shown at a news conference in Philadelphia. McSwain sent out grand jury sub- poenas last week to Pennsylvania dioceses as part of a federal inves- tigation of clergy abuse in Catholic churches. 922-3250 Wednesdays 6:00 pm Youth: 0-6th grade Overcomer’s Outreach Jr./Sr. High ’ David Maialetti/ The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File 541-481-6132 PENDLETON LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH 401 Northgate, Pendleton PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Federal prosecutors have opened an investiga- tion of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania, using subpoenas to demand secret files and testimony from high-ranking leaders in what victims’ advocates say is the first such probe ever launched by the U.S. Justice Department. The subpoenas, served last week, follow a scath- ing state grand jury report over the summer that found that 301 “predator priests” in Pennsylvania had molested more than 1,000 children over seven decades and that church leaders had covered up for the offenders. The intervention by the federal government opens a new front of legal peril for the Catholic church, given that investigations into sexual abuse by clergy members have histori- cally been handled exclu- sively by state and local authorities. “It’s groundbreaking if we’re going to see one of the U.S. attorneys pursuing the Catholic cases,” said Marci Hamilton, a Univer- sity of Pennsylvania pro- fessor and chief executive of Child USA, a nonprofit think tank focused on pre- venting child abuse. “The federal government has so far been utterly silent on the Catholic cases.” At least seven of the state’s eight Roman Cath- olic dioceses — Philadel- phia, Pittsburgh, Scran- ton, Erie, Greensburg, Allentown and Harrisburg — acknowledged receiv- ing subpoenas and said they would cooperate or were working with Justice Department officials. “This subpoena is no surprise considering the horrific misconduct detailed in the statewide grand jury report,” the Greensburg Diocese said in a statement. “Survivors, parishioners and the pub- lic want to see proof that every diocese has taken sweeping, decisive and impactful action to make children safer. 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